Themes and Rhetorical Strategy of "A Writer's Diary" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The research focus on the rhetorical stratrgy of the Writer's Diary in connection with ideological problems, stated by Dostoyevsky. During the 19th century the cultural gap between common people and educated elite in Russia was the main concern for many writers and publicists. Part of them, as Konstantin Aksakov was insisting on refusing of the European education and values for the sake of national culture. Such an attitude was reason for a great identity crisis for Russian intellectuals who was trying to find an ideological resolution of the historical contradiction. Dostoevsky, who was actually following the general slavophiles' principles, was looking for a paradoxical synthesis of this contrary ideas: national tradition and civilized European culture and the mean to establish the ortodox's ideal as the goal of the development of the civilization. The rhetorical strategy of the june's 1876 issue, in which Dostoyevsky, according to his own words, explicate his vision of Russia's destination, became the main subject of the research.